Hi there readers‼ Nothing to say at the moment but I'm sure I will come up with something soon. I still have some writer's block so I'm trying to deal with that and if you've not read the latest chapter of Hina hime, my uncle recently was sick and died and so that also threw everything off for me for a good while. Plus, at the beginning of this, my cousins were staring at the screen while I wrote… not the most comfortable feeling in the world to have someone over you as you write. Anyway, let's get to it.

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Chapter 52: Brother to Brother

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"-to kill him!"

Sasuke woke up groggily to Naruto storming across the hallway and just knew the blond was coming his way. Whatever it was, Naruto was not pleased and it took a lot to get Naruto riled up lately.

Sasuke's door was flung open to slam against the wall and Naruto stomped up to Sasuke as he sat up.

It was still very early in the morning, the sun was not even up and Naruto was in his room, ready to blow a fuse.

"Naruto wha-"

"Do you want to know what happened to me a few minutes ago?" said Naruto angrily.

Sasuke rubbed his eyes, not sure what to expect as Naruto was seriously pissed off.

Not waiting for Sasuke to guess, Naruto started his rant. "Do you know who just called me bashing in my eardrums about her son? Sora-san, Konohamaru's mother!"

Konohamaru's mother?

"Sora-san called me saying she received news from the school that Konohamaru has been using and distributing drugs at school. What the hell! I knew nothing about it!" Naruto said quite loudly. "Even worse, the woman actually accused me of encouraging him to do it since he looks up to me and calls me his Nii-chan. Do I do drugs?"

Naruto started to pace around the room in an angry tirade. "What do I know about drugs? I don't even know what the real thing looks like. I knew Konohamaru was acting really weird lately with his little friends but so did I at that age, minus the crack he's done!"

The blond then rounded on Sasuke, who was about to get up to go to the bathroom.

"And you! Did you know he was going out with Hinata's little sister?" Naruto asked aggressively. Sasuke swore the house shook.

"I recently found out he was-"

"And you didn't tell me?"

"I didn't think it was important, Naruto," Sasuke said, being irritable.

"Well Sora-san thinks it's important, bombarding me with questions about her since Konohamaru said I used to date Hinata," said Naruto. "I won't be surprised if she somehow gets Hinata's number and starts on her too!"

Sasuke would have to warn Hinata soon about that and he chose not to tell Naruto about Hanabi's involvement.

"Sora-can is seriously out of her mind! She was crying at screaming at me like some mad woman," said Naruto, holding his head. "Ugh! The stress of it all!"

Sasuke felt a little guilty at the moment, seeing as he had a little bit of knowledge about what was going on.

Naruto finally came to sit next to Sasuke, trapping him from getting up. "Why would that little idiot do something so stupid!" Naruto exclaimed.

Sasuke didn't know what to say and, to be honest, he doubted he was able to talk at that moment. "I just hope Sora-san gets everything sorted out, Kami knows I don't want the police showing up here or someone calling your parents about this."

Shit… Sasuke hadn't thought of that. He would have to talk to Itachi.

"You made sure to let Sora-san know you have nothing to do with this right?" asked Sasuke.

"Hai," Naruto drawled. "If there's one thing I don't want, it's being accused of something like that. A reputation like that could ruin someone like me."

Sasuke knew Naruto meant the fact that he was an orphan and so he had to be on his Ps and Qs at all times so as not to cause any issues.

Naruto had been quite rebellious when he was younger, Sasuke being the one to really bring him out of that stage through the rivalry the once shared.

After the yelling, Naruto seemed a lot calmer now and so Sasuke skirted around him to go to the bathroom. When he came out, Naruto was still there.

"What do you think caused Konohamaru to turn to drugs?" Naruto asked Sasuke. "Why does anyone turn to drugs? Something so harmful and dangerous?"

"I really don't know," Sasuke replied. "As you said, Konohamaru was stupid for doing it and I just hope everyone involved will get the help they need."


Soon the entire population of the house was up and about the house.

It was the weekend and so everyone had their plans, whether it was to go out or just have a day home studying or relaxing.

For Sasuke, he was going to try to get some studying done and call Hinata later to ask about the situation with Hanabi.

Sai, who left to go out with Kin, and the others had provided him with their books and notes to copy and look over.

It made no sense asking for Naruto's since he knew the boy would just have the same thing anyways, seeing as he hated to take notes in class, preferring to eat with Chouji.

Sasuke could really see how much he'd missed, even twice what he had imagined as it was two month's worth of work.

All the assignments and homework made his head spin.

Seeing all of this work, Sasuke knew he would have to just ask for some kind of makeup assignment or something and Hinata would have to do the same.

For the meanwhile, he would look over everything so that when he had to do his makeup work, he would at least know what was going on.

As Sasuke was studying, the thoughts of Hinata's little sister ran through his head and the thought that Hinata got so angry.

He'd never seen that side of her before and could not believe Hinata had even gotten to the point of hitting Hanabi.

He remembered talking to Hinata about the way her father used to hit her and Neji when they were younger and had sworn never to do the same to others.

Sasuke guessed it boiled to how angry and frustrated Hinata became to actually get to that stage.

Hearing someone close to you was in such deep trouble was very upsetting and even now he could see it with Naruto.

Sasuke got up from his desk in the bedroom to go downstairs, taking some books with him.

He could sense his brother was in the house at the moment and no sooner had he come down the stairs, Itachi was as well.

"Strange to see you in the house," Sasuke commented. He went to the dining room table and placed his stuff there before sitting.

"I was getting ready to go out soon," Itachi informed him. "I just came to see what you were up to and talk."

"That's good because I wanted to talk to you too," said Sasuke. He jumped right into it. "There's some stuff Hinata has going on with her little sister and a lot of things are happening where it's concerned-"

"Is this how you want to talk to me?" asked Itachi. "So vaguely?"

"Gomen," Sasuke apologized. "It's just that no one is supposed to know about this."

Itachi leaned on the counter, folding his arms. "If no one is supposed to know, you would not be talking to me about it," he said. "Just tell me. I have no one to tattle to."

Sasuke flew into the full details of what was going on and Itachi listened attentively, adding his opinions and interrupting when he saw the need for better explanations.

"I won't let anyone call here or harass us," said Itachi. "You just have to make sure your mate is okay, because she sounds like she is under a world of stress right now."

"How do I do that?" asked Sasuke. "I'm there for her."

"Iie, you're not," Itachi contradicted. "You're here."

"I'm going over there soon," Sasuke informed.

"Good."

As Itachi passed Sasuke, the latter remembered something. "The person you had asked me about, did you get the chance to meet them?"

Itachi smirked. I did meet that person," Itachi said. "Sort of."

Sasuke's curiosity peaked.

"Who is it?"

"A certain blonde I would have never in a million years thought it to be," Itachi replied.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Who is it?"

"Yamanaka Ino."

"Nani?"

Sasuke was sure he'd heard wrong. Ino, as in Hinata's best friend?

Ahh Hinata was very close to Ino, which would mean her scent would some way or another rub off on him.

"I was caught by surprise as well since I was definitely not expecting a younger female than myself," said Itachi. "But she smells so delicious-"

"I really don't want to know the details," Sasuke cut in. He had enough of that from Naruto on a daily basis.

"There are no details to tell," Itachi said. "I have not even approached the girl."

"Why not?" asked Sasuke. He knew his older brother was always the one to go after what he was interested in and what Itachi wanted, he usually got.

Itachi touched a finger to his chin. "Hmm I can't really explain it. Maybe it's because of her age as I prefer older women, that is, at least twenty-one."

Sasuke knew this to be true. After all, Itachi was around thirty so it made sense.

"It feels wrong to finally find someone who is my perfect taste but she's so young," said Itachi sitting at the table with Sasuke.

"Yeah, when you consider your age, it seems like you're some kind of pedophile," Sasuke said bluntly.

"Thanks a lot," Itachi replied sarcastically.

Sasuke muttered an apology.

He really liked when he and his brother could talk like this, it reminded him of when he was younger. Of course, Sasuke knew he annoyed Itachi at times but that was his job.

He also liked the fact that Itachi had come to him to talk. It made him feel even more mature.

"Look if you're sure Ino is your taste, go for it," Sasuke told his older brother. "Why bother about the age difference?"

"I'm not worried about that," said Itachi. "I just don't want any complications."

"Because being a vampire isn't complicated at all," Sasuke said. Oops! There he went with the sarcasm again. It must have rubbed off on him from someone.

"Of course not, the girl's parents will be thrilled to know," Itachi replied and Sasuke realized where it came from. "Anyway, I was waiting until you and Hinata returned to asked Hinata about the girl since she's Hinata's friend."

"Hai, I'm sure Hinata could tell you lots about Ino," Sasuke agreed. He wrote Hinata's cell number on a piece of paper and gave it to Itachi. "You can call Hinata; I'm sure she'd love to help."

Itachi nodded and took a look at the books Sasuke had laid out on the table.

"Trying to catch up?" Itachi asked his younger brother.

"Hai," I didn't know it would be two whole months of work," Sasuke said.

The door was heard opening then, and Naruto and Karin were heard.

Sasuke got up and piled the books, Itachi getting up as well.

"I'm not going to get any studying done with Naruto here," said Sasuke. "I'm going to go over to Hinata's or something."

Sasuke went to the door, grabbing his keys from the hook near the door. He suddenly remembered he had not been teaching Hinata to drive lately and put it on his to- do list even though she was drving like she been doing it for years already.

"Hey Sasuke."

The addressed looked around to see Itachi.

"Don't be back too late."

Sasuke rolled his eyes at the older male and went through the door with a wave of his hand.


And that is where I will end this chapter. I'm sorry it took so long, I was probably just lazy since today is Wednesday and I started on Sunday lol! Didn't write until a little while ago. Anyway, I hope you liked it and for those of you who read both fics, I put this is Sasuke's POV to make up for the fact it was in Hinata's POV for the latest chapter of Hina hime.

If you have not read Hina hime, A Happy Ending, or Following the Sun, please do.

Until next update…

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